Singing Flowers
I had some fun this afternoon making some musical paper flowers for Wonder Woman's birthday. She likes a quiet, understated birthday, and I thought these might fit the bill. She loves music!
- off white card stock
- an old hymnal
- a round, scalloped paper punch
- hot glue gun and glue
- small shank buttons
- craft wire (mine is green, but use what you have)
Leave the cardstock punch outs flat. Fold the paper circles in half and then as you see above.
Take your Vitamin C!
A legacy?
Two things happened this week that made me think about it. My neighbor died. She was very old, with a bad heart. She still lived alone. She had no family, her only daughter died some years ago. It was a weird feeling watching another neighbor haul all of her belongings out onto the driveway and sell them in a yard sale.
It made me think about all of the stuff I like to surround me, to save in case I need it, to make my life easier. Is there really a point to having so much stuff?
And today, I was surfing and read this obituary. It is impressive to me, and I realized that what people think of me now, is how I will be remembered. Am I good with that?
It sure gives me food for thought, not seasoned with Vitamin C.......
Pink Necklace Re-Design
I remember making it, it has been quite a few years. I was sitting in my friend Joann's kitchen. The necklace got worn once and it has been hanging on a hook since then. Look how tarnished the silver is.
So, it got a re-do today. I cut it all apart and put away the beads I didn't like anymore.
All of the discs give it a slight Jetson-ish feel. I think I will wear the re-designed version. And if not, I will take it apart and try it again.
Just takes a little Vitamin C.
Seeing this ad for the first time yesterday, made me laugh out loud. The designers who work for me often hear that kind of description from me.
"It should be not a light enough teal-ish color so it looks aqua or girlie, and not deep enough to feel like you are in the woods, something kind of in between, a little bolder than that color that is trendy right now.
Weirdly, that makes sense to them.
Guessing the writer of these TV Commercials (there are a bunch of these on You Tube), spent a day in the design department, and came up with these "design-speak" commercials. That's where the magic happens, hahahaaha!
Use your verbal Vitamin C!
Heavens to Betsey
Maybe I am drawn to Betsey's work because she and I have something in common. We both performed in many dance recitals while growing up. We both have a soft spot for costume. In fact, I have always wondered if I should have been a costume designer for Country Western singers.
So, while I am not going to wear a googly eyed pink lobster, I do like keeping up with Betsey now and then.
One more thing about Betsey...she does a cartwheel on the runway at the end of every one of her fashion shows. She is 71 years old!
Tap into some Betsey kind of creativity this week!
My Ebenezer is not about Scrooge
I am currently working through a bible study about Gideon. There are all kinds of gems in it that I want to remember. The way I remember is to write or draw or paint something about it. I am a kinesthetic learner. That means I learn and retain best if a physical activity is connected to the learning process.
When you create something, a memorial if you will, to help you remember what God has done for you, it is called an Eben-Ezer. Eben-Ezer in the original Hebrew, means "rock of help."
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”
I Samuel 7:12 NASB
That rock and others used for the same purpose by Old Testament characters, was a reminder.
When Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan into the promised land, God stopped the water flow so they could walk across the river bed. From that river bed, they collected 12 stones. They carried them out and placed them where they stopped for the day.
Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the Lord your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed; that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”I Samuel 7:12 NASB
That rock and others used for the same purpose by Old Testament characters, was a reminder.
When Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan into the promised land, God stopped the water flow so they could walk across the river bed. From that river bed, they collected 12 stones. They carried them out and placed them where they stopped for the day.
Joshua 4: 20-24
When God's people walked by it, they remembered. When their children asked what the big deal was about a rock, they could use it as a teaching opportunity.
I think Samuel must have been a visual person, like me, and having something he could see jolted his memory. It works like that for me too and so I make some sort of Ebenezer when I want to remember or keep it fresh.
Plus, it is fun to doodle and color.
Use Your Vitamin C!
Layering Glass on Beads
Had to brush off my Vitamin C a little....
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